[plug] Portable broadband solution

Chris Caston caston at iinet.net.au
Mon Nov 25 15:40:49 WST 2002


On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:26, garry wrote:
> ADSL is setup at the exchange so is NOT portable. But a laptop with a debian 
> mirror is pretty cool..  But getting all your networks onto debian might be 
> the drama...
> 
> Count on needing 5-6 GB for stable i386. (plus usual installation etc..)
> 
> Garry.
> 

I spose if there's nearby freenet you could have fumble around trying to
get on then VPN back to the office.


> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:11, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > While not being to knowledgeable about ADSL or ISDN I'm wondering if
> > there's a solution that would allow you to setup broadband on virtually
> > any phone line on demand.
> >
> > Let's say you go around fixing computers and working on networks for
> > various people then discover you need to download 50 Meg of software and
> > they only have dial-up.
> >
> > Does their line need something setup on the Telstra end to use ADSL?
> >
> > What equipment solution would you recommend?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> 
> 




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